Deaths in June 1999

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 1999.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

  • Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

June 1999[]

1[]

  • Lloyd L. Burke, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
  • Christopher Cockerell, 88, English engineer and inventor of the hovercraft.[1]
  • Alvin Ingram, 85, American orthopaedic surgeon and pioneer in combatting polio throughusing penicillin.
  • Mr. Prospector, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic.

2[]

  • Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, 47, Yemeni human-rights activist and journalist, (orchestrated) car accident.[2]
  • Keith Gledhill, 88, American tennis player.
  • Blagoje Jovović, Montenegrin Serb World War II Partisan and Chetnik.
  • Ron Reynolds, 71, English football goalkeeper.
  • Andy Simpkins, 67, American jazz bassist, stomach cancer.

3[]

  • Charlie Bradshaw, 75, American football player and coach.
  • Helge Bronée, 77, Danish footballer.
  • Peter Brough, 83, English radio ventriloquist.[3]
  • Charlene Pryer, 77, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

4[]

  • Zachary Fisher, 88, American philanthropist and businessman.[4]
  • G. S. Maddala, 66, Indian American economist and mathematician.
  • John McKeithen, 81, American lawyer, politician and governor of Louisiana.
  • Mike Mikulak, 86, American football player.

5[]

  • Kenneth Claiborne Royall Jr., 80, American politician and businessman.
  • Robert Merritt, Nova Scotia playwright and film critic.
  • Mel Tormé, 73, American singer and musician, stroke.[5]
  • Ernie Wilkins, 79, American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger, stroke.[6]

6[]

  • Lisy Fischer, 98, Swiss pianist.
  • Anne Haddy, 68, Australian actress, renal failure.
  • Freddy Nagel, 91, American bandleader.[7]
  • Manuel Ramos, 56, Mexican boxer.
  • Eddie Stanky, 83, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.[8]

7[]

  • Bob Garber, 70, American baseball player.
  • Lady June, 68, English painter, poet and musician, heart attack.[9]
  • Paul Oskar Kristeller, 92, German-American scholar of renaissance humanism.[10]
  • Niatross, American champion race horse.
  • Victor Otiev, 64, Soviet / Russian painter and graphic artist.
  • Charles D. Palmer, 97, United States Army general, cardiac arrest.[11]
  • Joseph Vandernoot, 84, British conductor.[12]

8[]

  • Zofia Kuratowska, 67, Polish doctor and politician.
  • Karl Z. Morgan, 91, American physicist and radiation health physics pioneer.[13]
  • Brian Shorland, 89, New Zealand organic chemist.
  • Emiliano Tardif, 71, Canadian missionary, heart complications.

9[]

  • Al Bates, 94, American Olympic athlete.
  • Sumbat Der Kiureghian, 85, Iranian-Armenian watercolor artist.
  • Giles Rich, 95, American judge and influential patent attorney.[14]
  • Andrew L. Stone, 96, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
  • Ray Yagiello, 75, American football coach.

10[]

  • Kenneth S. Davis, 86, American historian.
  • Jerry Navarro Elizalde, 75, Philippine artist.
  • Edith Emerald Johns, 84, American nurse and community leader.[15]
  • Kazi Mobin-Uddin, 68, American surgeon and vascular surgery pioneer.
  • Leonard Thornton, 82, New Zealand Army officer.

11[]

  • Gilles Châtelet, 55, French philosopher and mathematician.[16]
  • DeForest Kelley, 79, American film and television actor (Star Trek), stomach cancer.[17]
  • Jacek Sawaszkiewicz, 51, Polish science fiction writer and satirist.
  • Gordon Stirling, 74, Australian politician.

12[]

  • Ola Bauer, 55, Norwegian novelist and playwright, cancer.
  • Sunil Ganguly, 61, Indian instrumentalist.[18]
  • Sergey Khlebnikov, 43, Russian Olympic speed skater, drowned.
  • Jah Lloyd, 51, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay and record producer.
  • J. F. Powers, 81, American novelist and short-story writer.[19]
  • Bib Stillwell, 71, Australian racing driver.
  • Aleksandras Štromas, 68, Lithuanian political scientist, dissident and author.

13[]

14[]

  • Henri Baruk, 101, French neuropsychiatrist.
  • Jack M. Campbell, 82, American politician.[22]
  • Louis Diamond, 97, American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology".[23]
  • Bernie Faloney, 66, Canadian football player.
  • Anna McCune Harper, 96, American tennis player.[24]
  • Sir George Labouchère, 93, British diplomat and art collector.

15[]

16[]

  • Lennart Geijer, 89, Swedish politician and lawyer.
  • Lawrence Stone, 79, English historian of early modern Britain.[25]
  • Screaming Lord Sutch, 58, English musician and serial parliamentary candidate, suicide by hanging.[26]
  • Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, 70, Mexican Naval officer and politician.
  • Marshall Wayne, 87, American Olympic diver, gold medalist (1936).[27]

17[]

  • Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian convict, execution by lethal injection in the U.S.
  • Basil Hume, 76, English Roman Catholic bishop.[28]
  • Paul-Émile de Souza, 68, Beninese army officer and political figure.

18[]

  • Loyd Arms, 79, American football player.
  • Ross Baillie, 21, Scottish track and field athlete, complications from anaphylaxis.[29]
  • Brian Baldwin, 40, American man convicted of murder, execution by electric chair.
  • Dircinha Batista, 77, Brazilian actress and singer.
  • Bob Bullock, 69, American politician from Texas, cancer.[30]
  • Robert G. Neumann, 83, American politician and diplomat.[31]
  • Lothar Ulsaß, 58, German football player, stroke.

19[]

  • Saeed Emami, 41, Iranian deputy minister of intelligence.
  • Oton Gliha, 85, Croatian artist.
  • Henri, Count of Paris, 90, French nobleman, Orleanist pretender to the throne, prostate cancer.
  • Mario Soldati, 92, Italian writer and film director.[32]

20[]

  • Gautam Chattopadhyay, 51, Indian Bengali singer, songwriter and composer.
  • Clifton Fadiman, 95, American author, and radio and television personality, pancreatic cancer.[33]
  • Frank Faubert, 68, Canadian politician.
  • Olavi Puro, 80, Finnish Air Force ace.

21[]

  • Chandrakala, Indian film actress, cancer.
  • Ebba Lund, 75, Danish member of the Resistance during World War II and scientist.
  • Kami, 26, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), cerebral haemorrhage.[34]

22[]

  • Wassila Ben Ammar, 87, First Lady of Tunisia (1962 - 1986).
  • Michael Bredl, 83, German Volksmusik musician and collector.
  • Eugenio Florit, 95, Cuban writer, essayist, radio actor and diplomat.[35]
  • Mervyn de Silva, 69, Sri Lankan journalist.
  • Guy Tunmer, 50, South African racing driver, motorcycle accident.

23[]

  • Bert Haas, 85, American baseball player.
  • Carl Lange, 89, German film actor.
  • Buster Merryfield, 78, British television actor, played Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses, brain cancer.[36]
  • Francisco Rovira Beleta, 85/86, Spanish screenwriter and film director.

24[]

  • Jim Allen, 72, English playwright.[37]
  • Takehiko Bessho, 76, Japanese baseball player.
  • Hugh Carter, 78, American politician and businessman.
  • Maurice Ewing, 86, Australia professor of surgery.
  • Dorothy Lee, 88, American actress and comedian.[38]
  • Jack Mullin, 85, American pioneer in the field of magnetic tape sound recording.[39]
  • Pierre Perrault, 71, Québécois documentary film director.
  • Rachel Trickett, 75, English novelist, non‑fiction writer and literary scholar.

25[]

  • Sir Peter Abeles, 75, Austrian-born Australian businessman.[40]
  • Tommy Ivan, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager, complications of a kidney ailment.
  • Alfredo Layne, 39, Panamanian professional boxer, shot.
  • Mary Manning, 93, Irish novelist, playwright and film critic.
  • Yevgeny Morgunov, 72, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer.
  • Kōzō Murashita, 46, Japanese singer-songwriter, brain hemorrhage.
  • William Sage Rapson, 86, New Zealand and South African chemist.
  • Borghild Rud, 89, Norwegian artist and illustrator.
  • Frank Tarloff, 83, American screenwriter who was blacklisted.[41]
  • Fred Trump, 93, American real estate developer and father of Donald Trump.[42]

26[]

27[]

  • Jean Durtal, 94, French poet and novelist.
  • Harriet P. Dustan, American physician.
  • Khandkar Manwar Hossain, 69, Bangladeshi statistician.
  • Isaac C. Kidd Jr., 79, American admiral.[45]
  • Marion Motley, 79, American football player (Cleveland Browns), prostate cancer.[46]
  • Georgios Papadopoulos, 80, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1967–1973) and dictator.[47]
  • Bobs Watson, 68, American actor and Methodist minister, prostate cancer.
  • Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham, 88, English trade unionist, politician and industrialist.

28[]

29[]

  • Hugh Balfour, 66, British Royal Navy officer.
  • Allan Carr, 62, American film, television and theatre producer (La Cage aux Folles), liver cancer.[51]
  • Michael Hooker, 53, American academic, complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[52]
  • Declan Mulholland, 66, Northern Irish actor, heart attack.
  • Bob Shearman, 59, Australian rules footballer.

30[]

  • Bob Backus, 72, American track and field athlete and hammer throw world record holder.[53]
  • Édouard Boubat, 75, French photojournalist and art photographer.[54]
  • Clifford Charles Butler, 77, English physicist,.[55]
  • Marta Labarr, 87, French-American singer and actress.

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